According to message: # No mountpoints are shown. What tool is available to determine if sda5 is # the /home directory of the previous (mandriva) installation? I want to # perform a base installation, leaving the /home directory un-touched. If you are using the live iso, nothing is mounted by default. Your best bet in that case is to mount sda5 and sda6 in turn and list the contents of each filesystem. Most likely, sda6 is your previous /home, so you can try mounting sda5 first. If you get what looks to be the top level / directory of a Linux filesystem, you can unmount it, overwrite the filesystem, remount it in /mnt to keep things as simple as possible, make a home directory inside of the mount point and then mount sda6 in /mnt/home, assuming you initially mounted sda5 in /mnt. Hope this helps. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"